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Tried Stellaris for the first time in about six months. I own pretty much every other Paradox first-party game, and in my view this is the first time a Paradox game has gotten worse from its release. At release, it was an optimistic, if a bit shallow sci-fi sandbox. You could see a lot of potential...

I read the Lensman Series decades ago. E E "Doc" Smith could certainly tell a tale. The Bergenholm Device, allowing inertia less drives, in which you instantaneously reached the speed at witch your thrust and drag were equal. There by bypassing Einsteins theory of general relativity. I liked the Sky...

I just finished a book by Harry Turtledove, best known for his alternate history novels, called Noninterference . It's a stand alone work from 1985 so I assume it's one of his earliest works. I found it a truly fascinating read and highly recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/Noninterference-Harry-Tu...

Thank you Detritus and Talvieno. At 62 it was just another work day. At my age these things aren't nearly as exciting as they once were. My wife did give me a Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington metal Turvis tumbler which was pretty neat. It has a couple of dozen Jack Skellington faces with ...

I've been watching some Penn and Teller Fool Me videos lately. One of the contestants was a mentalist named Rob Zabrecky. Penn pointed out that he knew who Rob was so I looked him up. The band he was the lead singer and bassist in was called Possum Dixon. Here is one of their songs called Watch The ...

It's been 13 weeks since I started. While it's still in alpha, there are rumors that the beta will be starting soon. It's still very much a work in progress though what's in place seems to work well. Has anyone else gotten an invite? New people are still popping up in alpha 2.